This article is an illustration of the reciprocity between literature and society and their mutual interdependence. The underlying hypothesis is that literary texts are not a random selection but form part of a system. ...

The possible influence of religious beliefs on science has attracted the interest of historians of science, theologians, scientists and philosophers. Yet, in my opinion, the approaches traditionally used to connect religion ...

Recent trends point to the fact that national and provincial government
interventions in the local sphere of government in South Africa have become
more commonplace. These trends can be seen, within the broader context ...

How can reformational philosophy help us reconceptualise the notion of security? In the field of Security Studies, theoretical isms abound, each of them rooted in a different philosophical tradition. One of these approaches, ...

This article explores the phenomenon of self-help governance initiatives that manifest in the context of state dysfunction in South Africa. It is argued that the inability of dysfunctional states to render adequate public ...

Semi-mystical spirituality has become very popular today. Appealing to their reformed predecessors, some theologians today regard it as an important injection needed for the revitalization of their churches. Others, however, ...

Initial representation of sexual minorities reified gay lifestyle as synonymous with deviancy (Seidman 1996: 6), courtesy of news programmes or documentaries. Several depictions, whether comical or dramatic, led to an ...

Peter and the wolf is an intermedial work based on a folk tale originally written and composed by the Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev in 1936 (Hanson and Hanson 1964). Since few recent adaptations of the work in Afrikaans ...

South African tabloids generally thrive while mainstream newspapers struggle to compete with the current front-runners, Afrikaans-language tabloid Son and the English-language Daily Sun. However, not all South African ...

In six preceding articles in this journal the author investigated the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274), the doctor angelicus of the Catholic Church. In reconnoitring what happened to his heritage during the ...

Various writers and survivors have offered literary responses to the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. In 1998, a group of African
intellectuals, mostly non-Rwandans, of whom two were female authors, participated in a ...

A police raid on a gay party in Johannesburg in 1966 set in motion a series of events which led to a proposal in parliament that there be amendments made to the Immorality Act that would criminalise male and female ...

This article is a comparative exploration of the underlying narratives in D.J. Opperman’s volume of
poetry Komas uit ’n bamboesstok and Leonard Nolens’ collection Bres. Opperman’s collection
relates the story of the ...

This article is concerned with the noticeable increase in musicians from previously disadvantaged
communities (population groups who were previously disenfranchised) in South Africa who are
studying, researching and ...